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Article Review 2

Matthew Uk Peng Cung

International Teachers College

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Summary and Reflection

The title of article that I reviewed is Effective Teaching Practices That Promote a

Positive Classroom Environment, and the authors are Ashley S. MacSuga-Gage, Brandi

Simonsen, and Donald E. Briere. Basically this article talks about how we can promote a positive

classroom environment as a teacher. In this article, the authors are saying that here are some of

the ideas to practices in the class to promote a positive classroom environment and they

encourage readers to gain more ideas from further readings that they recommended. In this

article, the authors claim that effective teachers are who engage in reflective and proactive

professional development to create a strong foundation of positive classroom practices. So this

is the reason behind this article is to help the reader to be an effective teacher who build the

positive classroom environment. The authors start introduce the class-wide teaching practices

which means a set of observable and measurable actions a teacher can engage in to support all

students within his or her classroom. Then they talks about Key Areas of Effective Teaching

Practice, and the areas that they mention are Deliver explicit and Engaging academic

Instruction, Implement Empirically Supported Classroom Management Practices and

Develop Positive Relationships with Students and Their Families. Basically, authors try to say

that these are what we have found and let readers to consider these ideas for their classroom.

Interestingly, this article includes charts so that readers can really work on the practices

or find more ideas from further readings. The authors emphasize more on helping the readers got

the ideas so that ideas can apply in the classroom by the readers (teachers). Personally, I like this

article and I think it is helpful for every teacher who wants to build the positive classroom

climate. And what I like about this article is the authors include even the university classroom

management. While I was doing my teaching practicum in SPH, I was struggling with my
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classroom management. And I think I could apply these principles and practices in my next

student teaching. And while I was reading this article I was thinking of my cooperating since she

was doing one of these practices in her classroom. For example, she has wide communication

with her students parent, and she sometimes invited them to the class as a guest reader. And

some of the parent even came to the student chapel.

In addition, as a Christian teacher its good to apply these principles in our class to build a

positive classroom, but on the other side we should not forget about we are not fighting against

the flesh and bone but spiritually which are unseen. To conclude, I recommend this article to

every teachers and it will sure help us to become an effective teacher.

Work Cited

MAGSUGA-GAGE, A. S., SIMONSEN, B., & BRIERE, D. E. (2012). Effective Teaching

Practices That Promote a Positive Classroom Environment. Beyond Behavior, 22(1), 1-

11.